Roots w/o Top Growth

Is it concerning if a well-established rooted fig cutting shows no top growth?

  • Yes, you're doomed if you don't react today!

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  • Yes, but just push the cuttings with more light.

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  • Nope, be patient and give them time.

    Votes: 20 90.9%

  • Nope, roots are all that matters.

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  • Other - Please provide context

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This is a situation that sometimes makes it hard to be patient, but it is a great place to be in my opinion. Because then, when it does push a bud, it will have a much more established root system to support them. Roots first never concerns me, top growth well before roots does!
 
I notched one thats been rooted for about 2 months under light with no growth. Well see how it goes. Is there any chance my nodes arent viable? They are quite close together i suppose
 
mech_pa said:
The buds were all dried out, so they would never grow. The cuttings came like that.
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Interesting..mine doesnt have any visible buds but it does have leaf scars. Maybe it just has 0 viable points to grow idk. But other of mines didnt have a visible bud and still grew out a leaf of those scars
 
@RedSkip

Here is an example of one that has nice roots, that has grown a good mass of healthy roots and those roots have even gone well on their way to maturing, but practically nothing green on top.

It is Portuguese unk #3 and was fig popped on 12/19. Pic was taken on 1/28.

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And I didn’t see any green growth until 1/28, and it was just that tiny, tiny little leaf, but it’s totally fine.

A situation where I might worry is when a cutting is very old and is being re-popped, but has already used up a ton of the buds, and any remaining buds look very dried up or are not visible, but as long as the roots are healthy, I think it still has a chance, just may take longer.

I have a couple even older fig pops that are thicker cuttings, also with beautiful roots, but until the last couple of days, just started greening up a bud. I find the thicker cuttings can take a lot longer, as well as cuttings from older than 1yo wood.
 
Here's mine that im worried has no "viable nodes" since its been 2 months without growth.
 

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Its not necessary for them to have visible buds. When they chose to grow, they will push buds right out of the wood. Its mostly the end cuttings at or near the terminal ends that have the most pronounced buds. They work well, but so does the wood further down, without anything noticeable going on other than a leaf scar. The general health of the cutting is all that really matters. That said, not 100% of cuttings will produce roots and leaves. The large majority of them will though.
 
Some of mine took awhile but eventually pushed out leaves right by the old leaf scar. No visible bud. Just kinda broke through. And then I overwatered them…. Aaaand they rotted.
 
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After rooting over 250 cuttings so far since Thanksgiving I have an almost a full tote of ones that had rooted or have done nothing, and the cuttings still look like the day I got them. The ones with the roots visible I’m moving to the grow room in hope they will bud out soon. The others are staying in the heating pad.
 
Here is another example of great roots, but just the tiniest top growth:

Capri Q
Fig popped on 1/20
It’s an odd, short cutting, like a knuckle, with the tiny bit of green coming out of the knuckle joint.
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